Swatara High School - Yearbook (Oberlin, PA)

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4 THE SWATARA SWATTER-Swatava Township High School rgxuwwcw mvmmagv Ambition MBITl0Nl That desire of power and foresight of the human mind, regarding career planning in future life work, is something that every man, every woman, and every boy and girl should possess. They should come to realize that the greatest factor and gatef way to success is the possession of that inward feeling of future power called ambition. Then secondly Cfor those who have acquired such an ambitionb to carry it out and make the best of it, so that someday they may be a success and at the same time render service to their community, to their state, and to their country. But! There are many persons who have not acquired such an ambition but are idle dreamers and aimless drifters. They are like the man who is fighting a defensive battlef parrying with conditions as they exist around himfexposing himself to trustsfletting himself in for a beating. And why? Simply because they haven't the grit to set an ambif tion and conquer it. Simply because they are willing to take chancesfto follow the easy roadfthe fatal line of least resistance. They are drifting along under the impression that life is a dream, and are hoping that someday luck will come flying by, bringing them a better job, a raise in pay, recognition or whatever they wish on a silver spoon. ln other words they think that the world owes them a living, but they seem to forget the other half that they owe the world a life of service, The followers of this previous group, as stated before, are many. They have not realized the only foundations upon which success can be built, they have no true knowledge of its reward, nor realized its help to their community, to their country and to humanity in general. But, on the other hand, there are still some persons on the opposite side of life's path who may be classihed under the ambitious type of manly men and womanly women. They have set before themselves some great obstacle which they intend with their heart and soul to strive at, to work for and to conquer. They have realized that in order to be a success they must be more steady than others, they must be in their chambers while others are at the theatreg they must work while others are idle, concentrate while others dream, and last but not least they have made up their minds that if at first they donlt succeed, they'll try, try, again. To which of these two groups do you belong? The former, consisting of the idle, driftless, and lazy type, or the latter, consisting of the ambitious, energetic and studious type. Surely you should belong to the latter and if you do, you are on the right road to happiness and success which you will soon realize if you not already have. But, in case you belong to the other type, try and convince yourself to shift over. Donlt say, I haven't any luck, or 'BI haven't a chance, or some other alibi, because the world of yesterf day, today or tomorrow never did nor ever will judge one by what he wants to do, but by what he really does. The sources of help, information and knowledge are many. There are all the different types of schools such as the elementary grade schools, high schools, trade schools, colleges and universities together with business schools, public libraries, museums, art galleries and the like. So you see if you really try you can't help but succeed. Make up your mind that you are going to acquire and carry out some form of ambition, by first selecting a vocation, secondly, develop a personality that corresponds to your ideal of fine manhood or fine womanhoodg and third, have perseverance, that is to say 'istick to it, and never give upfl By doing this your reward will slowly but surely come, It will greet you with happiness, a livelihood and lifels success. Then you can truly and righteously say, The world owes me a living, for which in turn I am rendering a life of service to my community, to my state, and to my country. JOHN SCHENFELT 2?GJram:+w